Sam Richardson Quotes

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.

In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.